Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 237 337
Rank change year-on-year -104 +100 -25
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 599 648 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.31% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.48% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 287 277 322
10th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £58,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,304
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.27% -2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -107 525 £60,850 -16.07% 1,834
London -13 329 £69,000 -13.75% 1,342
Work from Home +10 226 £60,000 -14.29% 670
UK excluding London -191 203 £60,000 -4.00% 667
North of England -44 59 £60,850 -18.87% 148
North West +8 38 £82,500 +17.86% 91
Midlands -37 37 £48,500 -19.83% 86
South East -145 37 £38,500 -38.40% 156
South West -80 27 £68,000 +19.83% 93
West Midlands -33 26 £48,500 -17.45% 56
East of England -44 24 £65,000 -9.72% 68
Yorkshire -50 19 £57,500 -25.81% 38
Scotland +5 13 £77,500 -4.62% 67
East Midlands -32 11 £39,194 -47.74% 30
Wales -66 3 £65,000 +8.59% 6
Northern Ireland -84 3 - - 46
North East - 2 £90,000 - 19

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (6.18%) Confluence
2 15 (2.50%) CMS
3 14 (2.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (8.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.83%) Moqups
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (6.34%) Workfront
2 8 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.67%) Shopify
4 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.50%) iTrent
4 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Eikon
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.17%) RMDS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 81 (13.52%) AWS
2 80 (13.36%) SaaS
3 52 (8.68%) iPaaS
4 51 (8.51%) Azure
5 18 (3.01%) GCP
6 16 (2.67%) Google Workspace
7 14 (2.34%) Figma
8 13 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 12 (2.00%) GitHub
10 11 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
11 10 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.83%) Zapier
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.67%) Asana
14 4 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.02%) Broadband
2 33 (5.51%) HTTP
3 10 (1.67%) Firewall
3 10 (1.67%) WAN
4 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.00%) LAN
6 5 (0.83%) DNS
6 5 (0.83%) Network Security
7 4 (0.67%) DHCP
7 4 (0.67%) Multicast
7 4 (0.67%) NGN
7 4 (0.67%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.50%) Intranet
8 3 (0.50%) MPLS
8 3 (0.50%) VSAT
8 3 (0.50%) WLAN
9 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.02%) Metadata
2 12 (2.00%) Power BI
3 8 (1.34%) Big Data
4 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (10.52%) JIRA
2 11 (1.84%) Git
3 10 (1.67%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.34%) Selenium
5 6 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.83%) Postman
7 4 (0.67%) GitLab
7 4 (0.67%) JUnit
8 2 (0.33%) TestNG
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (31.72%) Marketing
2 188 (31.39%) Finance
2 188 (31.39%) Social Skills
3 91 (15.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (15.19%) Law
4 89 (14.86%) Banking
5 88 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (10.52%) Presentation Skills
7 58 (9.68%) Retail
8 47 (7.85%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (5.51%) Public Sector
10 30 (5.01%) Legal
11 28 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (3.84%) Manufacturing
13 17 (2.84%) Telecoms
14 13 (2.17%) Back Office
14 13 (2.17%) Italian Language
15 12 (2.00%) Electronics
15 12 (2.00%) Publishing
16 11 (1.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 169 (28.21%) Product Manager
2 87 (14.52%) Lead
3 75 (12.52%) Product Owner
4 74 (12.35%) Senior
5 49 (8.18%) Software Engineer
6 38 (6.34%) Senior Manager
7 34 (5.68%) Development Engineer
7 34 (5.68%) Software Development Engineer
8 33 (5.51%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (5.18%) Senior Product Manager
10 20 (3.34%) Product Lead
11 18 (3.01%) Consultant
12 15 (2.50%) Development Manager
12 15 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (2.34%) Technical Manager
14 13 (2.17%) Platform Manager
14 13 (2.17%) Technical Engineer
15 12 (2.00%) Support Engineer
15 12 (2.00%) Technical Support
15 12 (2.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.68%) REST
2 19 (3.17%) Terraform
3 15 (2.50%) Google Maps API
4 14 (2.34%) React
5 11 (1.84%) HTML
6 9 (1.50%) LangChain
7 8 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.17%) Spring
9 6 (1.00%) Pandas
9 6 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.00%) XML
10 5 (0.83%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.83%) CSS
10 5 (0.83%) LlamaIndex
11 4 (0.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.67%) Node.js
11 4 (0.67%) NumPy
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 199 (33.22%) Product Ownership
2 65 (10.85%) Social Media
3 53 (8.85%) Marketing Technology
3 53 (8.85%) Over-the-Top Content
4 38 (6.34%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.68%) Cloud Native
6 33 (5.51%) AI Agents
7 29 (4.84%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.51%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.67%) Augmented Reality
9 16 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.50%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (2.34%) Web Conferencing
12 12 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.84%) Blog
13 11 (1.84%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.67%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.50%) Educational Technology
15 9 (1.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.50%) Linux
2 12 (2.00%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (59.43%) Roadmaps
2 253 (42.24%) Agile
3 178 (29.72%) Product Roadmap
4 153 (25.54%) AI
5 144 (24.04%) Decision-Making
6 136 (22.70%) Product Vision
7 130 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 129 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (20.70%) Customer Experience
10 115 (19.20%) User Stories
11 114 (19.03%) Product Backlog
12 108 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (15.19%) Software Engineering
14 89 (14.86%) Product Strategy
15 85 (14.19%) Product Requirements
16 83 (13.86%) Analytics
17 79 (13.19%) Sprint Planning
17 79 (13.19%) User Experience
18 75 (12.52%) Matrix Organization
18 75 (12.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (8.51%) Java
2 39 (6.51%) Python
3 13 (2.17%) SQL
3 13 (2.17%) TypeScript
4 12 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.67%) C++
6 6 (1.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.00%) R
7 5 (0.83%) Bicep
8 3 (0.50%) Bash
8 3 (0.50%) C#
8 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.50%) PHP
9 2 (0.33%) Perl
10 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 141 (23.54%) Degree
2 37 (6.18%) Master's Degree
3 28 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.17%) MBA
5 24 (4.01%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.67%) HND
8 9 (1.50%) HNC
8 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.50%) PhD
9 7 (1.17%) CCNA
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.17%) CSPO
9 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.17%) PMP
10 5 (0.83%) MCSE
11 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.51%) QA
2 22 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.50%) GDPR
4 8 (1.34%) SLA
5 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.17%) PMO
6 4 (0.67%) PERC
7 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.33%) DICOM
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
7 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.67%) Docker
2 7 (1.17%) Firmware
3 6 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) vSphere
5 4 (0.67%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 56 (9.35%) Adobe
2 48 (8.01%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.51%) Google
5 17 (2.84%) Facebook
5 17 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.34%) Cisco
7 12 (2.00%) Workday
8 11 (1.84%) Oracle
9 6 (1.00%) Juniper
9 6 (1.00%) VMware
10 5 (0.83%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.67%) FIS
11 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) Aderant
12 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.50%) iManage
12 3 (0.50%) Reuters
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.50%) Starlink